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Nurse Adopts Girl Whose Parents Didn't Visit Her In Hospital For Months

For Liz Smith, a nurse at Franciscan Children's Hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts, having children was something she always hoped for - but learned through a lengthy process of trying that it was more difficult for her than for others.

Which makes the story of how she ended up adopting a neglected patient from the hospital where she works even more special.

So let's rewind a bit:

Shortly after joining Franciscan Children's Hospital, Liz met a "beautiful little girl" who, as it turns out, was in need of some help.

“I came out of the medical unit one day and in the stroller was this beautiful little girl,” Smith said. “I said to the nurse, ‘Who is this beautiful little angel?'”

That beautiful little angel was named Gisele, and she was on the brink of being placed in foster care after her parents stopped visiting her in the hospital.

Liz, who had previously attempted in vitro fertilization and sperm donation without success, decided that she would be the one to help Gisele, instead of sending her into the traditional foster care system.

After several weeks of being a foster parent to Gisele - having helped her through withdrawal of drugs she was exposed to while in the womb and feeding her through a gastrostomy tube 16 hours a day - Liz realized the extreme attachment she had to Gisele.

“One night she was hooked up to the feed… and the thought went into my head of losing her,” she told Today. “It made me sick to my stomach.”

The story gets even sweeter for this special bond between Liz and Gisele - after 9 months of fostering Gisele, she was given the chance to becoming her legal mother. If you ask me, seeing the video of these two and hearing their story, it seems like they were meant to be together all along.

“The day I got the phone call with the adoption date was the day that I was jumping up and down.”

So happy for Liz and Gisele!

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